Le Pellerin Ferry – Martinière Lock loop from La Montagne
Le Pellerin Ferry – Martinière Lock loop from La Montagne
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Le Pellerin Ferry – Martinière Lock loop from La Montagne
01:20
20.7km
130m
Cycling
Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: May 1, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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4.27 km
View of the Couëron Shot Tower
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The manufacture of hunting lead
Lead towers appeared in France in the 18th century to produce lead or shot. A mixture of lead, arsenic (for malleability) and antimony (for hardness) is prepared in the lower part. The ingots obtained are taken to the casting chamber where the equipment necessary for production is located: boilers for remelting the lead with their hoods, 21 pierced pans stored in a rack, ladles, shovels, buckets, cruets... The fall of the balls over a great height makes it possible to obtain perfectly spherical balls collected in two tanks filled with water placed at the lower level. The pellets produced in Couëron were renowned for their high quality. In the tower as in the rest of the factory, the workers then worked in difficult conditions, due in particular to the harmfulness of lead.
Source: ville-coueron.fr/culture/decouvert-le-patrimoine/la-tour-a-plomb
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7.14 km
View of the Loire
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7.40 km
Le Pellerin Ferry
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Find on this page the timetables, webcams and possible disruptions concerning the connection between Couëron and Le Pellerin:
inforoutes.loire-atlantique.fr/44/bacs-de-loire/bac-de-loire-liaison-coueron-le-pellerin/info_60323
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8.77 km
Scenic Path Along the Loire
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9.89 km
Martinière Lock
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10.1 km
Nice café
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10.6 km
Canal maritime de la Basse Loire
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13.8 km
Bikini
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You can read the explanations in more detail along the way, but here is a summary:
In their flight at the end of the war, the Germans sank nine ships across the Loire channel to prevent the Allies from sailing up it to Nantes. This forced the channel to move northwards.
Just after the war, a cofferdam was built around the wrecks to refloat them. (including a boat which could not be and is still visible today).
This created the creation of a sand atoll, nicknamed Bikini.
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20.7 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
6.94 km
5.94 km
5.25 km
1.99 km
588 m
Surfaces
13.6 km
3.27 km
2.78 km
772 m
301 m
< 100 m
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Saturday 27 June
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18°C
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